Prologue
Erin was sitting on a bar stool in Molly's, downing another shot. She was thinking about the one thing that was on her mind all day every day, Jay.
'Whatcha thinking about?' Gabby asks as she pours Erin another shot.
'Can you date your partner?' Erin asks, her eyes moving from her shot to Gabby's eyes.
'That's a hard question,' Gabby answers, 'I reckon the hardest thing about dating someone you work with is the worry. The worry that one day they aren't going to be ok. They worry that one day, they aren't going to come home at all. That's the hardest thing.'
Erin's eyes moved back to her shot, what if one day Jay isn't going to be ok.
Jay was heading home after a long day at work. They had just caught a serial killer who was raping then murdering his victims, the case hit a cord in all of them and they had worked 24/7 for the past three days, and Jay was exhausted. His feet trudged every step towards his apartment, his mind only focused on the haven that was his comfy mattress.
If Jay hadn't have been so tired, if he wasn't so exhausted he would have noticed that his apartment was trashed, if Jay wasn't so tired, he might have seen the man hiding in the corner of the room holding a gun, if Jay wasn't so tired he might have seen the man come up behind him and knock him out. But Jay was exhausted and he didn't notice any of this, just fell to the ground, not even registering the pain in his head, his consciousness slowly fading, and black surrounding his vision.